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Paving the Road for Cement and Concrete Technologies
NREL Brings Together Specialists From Across the Country To Discuss Cement and Concrete for Its Third Annual Critical Technologies Meeting Cement and concrete are essential to United States infrastructure, from our roadways to the buildings we occupy. Accounting for 50% of all materials produced globally, domestic production of this critical material is … [continued]
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BetterFleet’s Software Helps Fleets Transition to Electric Vehicles
On the surface, the transition to electric vehicles for a fleet seems straightforward. Fleet managers are used to ordering new vehicles, managing transitions, and building budgets around fuel cost and maintenance, and those same variables need to be managed for an electric fleet. In reality, though, transitioning a diesel or … [continued]
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Trump’s budget would devastate sea lamprey control in Great Lakes
By Maya Moore
If Congress approves President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the operations and science budget of the U.S. Geological Survey, the scale and intensity of Great Lakes environmental restoration will be significantly diminished, experts say. Among the programs that could be dismantled entirely is the 70-year-old program to control sea lampreys, an exotic parasitic fish that attacks game fish and has caused billions of dollars in damage to Great Lakes fisheries.
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To get that perfect ear of corn, weather has to cooperate. But climate change is making it dicier
Climate change is fueling conditions across several states that make watching the corn grow a nail-biter for farmers.
OUA football: Western Mustangs open season with four-OT thriller
The Western football team finished an all-time comeback with a win for the ages. The Mustangs rallied from 16 points down late in the fourth quarter, then finally subdued Queen’s on Brian Garrity’s 16-yard field goal in the fourth overtime for a rousing 45-42 season-opening victory Saturday at Richardson Stadium in Kingston. “I thought I […]